And when faced with another user who argued: “I think it’s a fair assumption.

“She looks way younger than the dude and looks like a different ethnicity than her children”, Roxanne replied: “It’s only a fair assumption if you’re racist.”

Helier Cheung agreed stereotyping played a part, she wrote on the BBC website: “Many people feel the assumption that Ms Kim was a helper, rather than the children’s mother, was grounded in racial stereotypes about the roles played by Asian women.”

Meanwhile, relatives of Robert Kelly, looked at the funny side, his mother Ellen Kelly, told MailOnline that she thought little Marion, four, and James, nine months, most likely thought their dad was Skyping their grandparents from his office.

She said: “Robert usually Skypes us from his home office, which is where he did the interview.

“The kids probably heard voices coming from the computer and assumed it was us.